The Good, The Bad, and the Raven

Blue Rain Gallery

The Good, The Bad, and the Raven
Preston Singletary

Stories Imagined by Preston Singletary and Garth Stein
Written by Garth Stein

Blue Rain Gallery - Santa Fe
August 14th - 27th, 2026
Artist Reception: Friday, August 14th from 5 - 7pm.

For the latest chapter in their ongoing collaboration, bestselling author Garth Stein and internationally acclaimed glass artist Preston Singletary return with The Good, the Bad and the Raven—a sharp-witted, myth-soaked journey through a world where ancient truths collide with modern absurdities.

Told through a cycle of interconnected Raven stories, the exhibition reimagines traditional Tlingit storytelling through a contemporary lens of artificial intelligence, social media addiction, fractured identity, environmental collapse, and the dangerous seduction of convenience. Raven, eternal trickster and reluctant cultural critic, moves through a surreal landscape populated by ghostly ancestors, living statues, kushtaka hackers, phone-zombie humans, and Eagle himself—who may or may not be the wisest bird in the sky.

As always, humor cuts hand-in-hand with deeper questions. What happens when people surrender their tongues, their stories, and their sense of balance? What traditions remain when truth itself becomes unstable? And can Raven—chaotic, vain, brilliant, endlessly improvisational Raven—still guide humanity back toward connection before everything slips entirely into darkness?

Pairing Singletary’s luminous glass sculptures with Stein’s lyrical and satirical prose, The Good, the Bad and the Raven continues the artists’ evolving exploration of Indigenous storytelling as both preservation and reinvention: oral tradition meeting speculative fiction, ceremonial form colliding with pop culture, old stories refusing to remain in the past.

Funny, unsettling, profane, and unexpectedly moving, this newest Raven cycle reminds us that stories are not relics. They are living things. They change because we change. And somewhere in the smoke, the floodwaters, the gossip, and the glow of our little screens, Raven is still watching us—laughing, warning, and trying, against all odds, to save the world one more time.

- Garth Stein